I wake up about 10 minutes before the alarm goes off.
My body can handle some variation of time, as well. If I change the alarm, I still wake before it sounds.
And I go to bed at a wide variety of hours during the week. I could be in bed by 10.30pm, or as late as 1.30am, but I wake about 6am, which is 15 mins before the alarm.
I haven’t owned an alarm clock for 15 years, I wake up a little before 5am every day. On the weekends I go back to sleep for an hour. The house is mighty quiet at 6am. I too have missed the end of almost every X-files and a lot of PBS stuff! I’m in bed by 10 every night except Friday when I play EverQuest till the wee hours.
I wake up on my own, typically, but there is a back up system in place just in case: our dog. He knows exactly when the breakfast should be hitting the bowl, and he would never let me oversleep. So I really don’t need anything else!
No way. I absolutely will NOT wake up on time without an alarm. Luckily, I’m a very light sleeper and the weakest, wussiest of alarms will wake me up. I also never developed the habit of hitting the snooze bar, so when the alarm goes off, I wake up and get out of bed. The only exception to this is when I’m sick, in which case there’s a fair chance I’ll shut off the alarm and try to get up, but I’ll fall back to sleep. In those cases, my body apparently really needs it, so I can’t really complain.
I’m definitely a night person and can’t function worth a damn in the morning. My prime begins around 10:00pm, and I work best after 1:00am. I just wish my life allowed me to sleep from 9:00am to 5:00pm instead of working during those hours.
I can’t hear it, of course. Also, I dont have a flashing light one but they do have a pillow vibrator one I haven’t tried.
However, I have often tried to see if I could get myself to wake up at various times, 6, 715am, etc & I could. I think that I can see the time when Im asleep. This wouldn’t surprise me since I can also hear people talk in the room when Im asleep & talk back to them. I must be an angel.
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handy, I use a pillow vibrator alarm, and it works great. It’s about the size of a fist. The price was cheap. If you want the name of the manufacturer, let me know by sending me an e-mail. I’m not putting the information here, since I don’t want this post to look like an advertisement for a specific product.
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As for the OP, I often, but not always, wake up a few minutes before the alarm. This happens even if I vary the times when I go to bed.
Atreyu, I know where to get a few of them that doesn’t mean I need or want one…I did notice a recall on one of them, seems they have a tendency to catch flambe. I hope you don’t have one of those 
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Was the Shake Awake alarm clock the one that had the recall?
6:00 am, everyday, including weekends and vacation (although lately I have been waking up at about 5 am for some reason - at least I have another hour before the alarm goes off).
I can do it. No matter the time of day I can go to sleep and wake up at a predetermined time. I also wake up without fail at 4:55 am, the alarm is set for 5:15 (yeah and I miss the end of the X-Files a lot too).
The only exception to this seems to be the night after I have travelled accross a time zone. But if I’m there for more than a day. My body adjusts and it works again.
I was so oddly proud of the fact that I would wake up every day just a few minutes before the alarm.
Then one day I woke up 15min earlier and heard my upstairs neighbor’s alarm go off just when I would have waked up “by myself”. It was just loud enough to wake me, but and was quiet before I realized it had woken me.
If it’s for something mundane like work, it’s tough enough to get up with an alarm. Something important like going fishing or on a vacation and I can pretty much pick my time and wake up ten minutes before it, regardless of how tired I am. Kind of nice, but I generally set an alarm anyway because I know what’ll happen the first time I decide I can really depend on my biological alarm clock.
Alas, gone are the days when I could do this. Back when I lived in a dorm, I could tell myself how long I wanted to sleep, and I would be within 15 min. of that when I awoke. Now I can hardly drag myself out of bed even if the coffee is already made.
It may be because my subconscious didn’t want to hang around the dorm room any more than necessary, I suppose.
Weird . . but both situations happen to me . . It seems as though if I mentally prepare myself the night before to wake up on time for something important, I usually will wake up before the alarm goes off by a few minutes . . . but for less important things (like work), I actually have to place the alarm a distance away so I force myself to get out of bed, walk over to the alarm and turn it off . . otherwise, if its on my nightstand, I will turn it off, half asleep, with my hand and doze off again . . hate that!!
I always wake up about half and hour before the alarm…then I fall asleep again and wake up when the alarm goes off and hit the snooze and I usually get up when it goes off again. I’ll wake up but I’m not really awake unless I get to sleep til 9 or so, otherwise I’m a zombie until I get a shower. It doesn’t seem to change anything that I have the clock across the room, I can still get up and hit snooze and go back to bed and not remember it afterwards.
I also wake up before my alarm clock beeps, usually about 15 mins, but occasionaly only a minute or so, i cant remember a day i have been actually woken by my alarm, however, that dont mean i get out of bed.
I used to have my alarm clock at teh other side of my room, with chairs and clothes in the way, so i was forced to climb and stagger to it before i could press the ‘off’ button.
This was good for a few years. But now i just wake up, kill the alarmclock, adn bask in the sleepiness until i am good and ready to get out of bed.
If it is for something fun ( a trip, seeing friends, just for the hell of it) i can get up real easy, adn usually dont bother with the alarm at all ( overly confident? )
but getting motivated when i have school is a real PITA.
But now i dont go to school, no problems, no reason to get up at all. Sleep sleep sleep.
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